Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Unknown artist

Date: mid-late 1st century BCE

Medium: Bronze

Dimensions: 25 1/8 in., 29.5 lb. (63.8 cm, 13.4 kg) Width: 11 7/8 × 12 3/4 in. (30.2 × 32.4 cm)

Classification: Bronzes

Culture: Greek, Ptolemaic or Roman

Period: Late Hellenistic or Early Imperial

Themes: Boys

Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1949

Met highlight

Date range

-50 – -20

Largest dimension

63.8 cm

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